Kindred
Item
Title
Kindred
Abstract/Description
Octavia Butler makes Faulkner's aphorism about the past not being past literal in this tale of a modern black woman, Dana, who is drawn unwittingly back through time to the Antebellum South to interact with her ancestors. Dana is pulled back and forth between past and present, each stay in the slave quarters lasting longer and becoming more dangerous, and as the tension and brutality rises she struggles to understand the connections that are drawing her back in order to escape. Originally written in the?70s, Butler's portrayal of the ways that the injustices of the past are woven intimately into the fabric of our present and our inability to move forward until we gain an understanding of that rings truer than ever.
Author/creator
Date
Publisher
Doubleday
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Other
Open access/free-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-0-385-15059-0
Citation
Butler, O. E. (1979). Kindred. Doubleday.
Num pages
264
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